Archive for
June
2013 - Page 2

Just as Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders moved last week to make overall school funding more simple and transparent, the 2013-14 budget also includes a number of changes to special education funding with the same objective.

A study calling more than three-quarters of the nation's teacher colleges mediocre at best' is flawed and fails in its mission to fairly evaluate their quality, according to the chair of California's Commission on Teacher Credentialing and the state's superintendent of public instruction.

California's standards board for educator training and professional conduct added its support to legislation that would rewrite the rules implementing sanctions against school officials who fail to report changes in an employee's work status while an allegation of misconduct is pending.

EDITOR's Note: A report last week on Fordham Institute's review of the Next Generation Science Standards, which gave an overall grade of 'C,' sparked this repsonse from Trish Williams, a member of the California State Board of Education.

Even as the Obama administration moves to ameliorate the most punitive aspects of the No Child Left Behind Act, proposals for reauthorizing the nation's primary education law would retain several of the most disliked provisions for testing and intervention.

California would abandon its long-time practice of issuing credentials that allow teachers to oversee instruction in the widest of grade spans - from pre-kindergarten to adult education - under a proposal pending before the Commission on Teacher Credentialing.

Plans in California to replace the state's existing science curriculum standards with a new national set recently released for public review would be analogous to trading in a Cadillac for a Chevy, according to new analysis from the Fordham Institute.

A bill that would require California public schools to allow transgender students to participate in activities, including athletics, and to use the facilities that align with their gender identity was moved by a key legislative panel Wednesday.